The top 10 most popular emojis of 2023

With 208 million mentions on social networks, according to Meltwater, the loudly crying face emoji is the second most-used of 2023. — Photography TENGKU Bahar/AFP

Emojis, or emoticons, are an everyday feature of our private and public messages. And it seems that laughing emoticons were the most popular this year. Find out which emojis were the most used on social networks in 2023.

A picture is worth a thousand words. And in 2023, emojis confirm it. Of the 3,782 Unicode-compliant emoticons as of September 2023, Meltwater, an analysis and social intelligence tool, has unveiled the 10 most-used emojis this year on 12 platforms, including Instagram and Twitter, between January 1 and November 30, 2023. The results show that humor seems to have been the strongest driving force for emoji use. At the top of the list is the "face with tears of joy,", with 254 million mentions on social networks, often the most popular with Millennials. It is followed by the "loudly crying face," with another 46 million mentions (208 million), a Gen Z favorite. Finally, the "rolling-on-the-floor laughing" emoji, takes third place with 128 million mentions.